It definitely sounds like you’ve already decided to find AI useless regardless of what it can do, but on the chance that I can maybe change your mind a little bit…

I’m a huge AI skeptic myself, at least compared to my coworkers. Almost everything it spits out has been incorrect for me, except in very narrow use cases.

First, I find it useful to find links to actual documentation for tools/libraries/languages I am completely unfamiliar with. The examples and text it generates are usually poor, but it can do a decent job of finding webpages.

Second, I’ve found it good at guided code reviews. It is no substitute for a real human review, but adding an AI pass before you open a pull request can knock off some of the low hanging fruit.

I’m always excited by these kinds of headlines! I hope they stick with open source and don’t switch back.

That’s why I specified a proof-of-stake cryptocurrency. They use so much less energy that it is practically negligible in comparison, and more on the order of traditional online transactions.

Yeah, exactly. A regular user isn’t going to notice an extra few cents on their electricity bill (boiling water costs more), but a data centre certainly will when you scale up.

Scarcity is what powers this type of challenge: you have to prove you spent a certain amount of electricity in exchange for access to the site, and because electricity isn’t free, this imposes a dollar cost on bots.

You could skip the detour through hashes/electricity and do something with a proof-of-stake cryptocurrency, and just pay for access. The site owner actually gets compensated instead of burning dead dinosaurs.

Obviously there are practical roadblocks to this today that a JavaScript proof-of-work challenge doesn’t face, but longer term…

Should also take a look at https://www.home-assistant.io/voice_control/voice_remote_local_assistant/

I think a large part of that is enshittification and not necessarily because of AI (though AI certainly doesn’t help…)

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/ is a decent read.

Snapper is great, just make sure the FS is setup correctly or it causes very mysterious hangs.

Framework has endorsed a Linux distribution by a developer with controversial social views.

Every online space is filled with furries, especially the most furry-hostile spaces!

Gentoo is the way.

It wasn’t child porn then, and it isn’t now. Taking a screengrab doesn’t somehow transform it?

What video adapter is in there?

Have you tried dmesg over SSH? Sometimes you can get an extra message or two if the display freezes before the entire kernel does.

Sure, maybe you don’t need to put your sexual identity in a post asking for help configuring nginx, but in an introductory post where you’re explicitly describing yourself… Yeah, I think you should be allowed to mention your sexuality.

I’ve been playing with systemd-nspawn for my containers recently, and I’ve been enjoying it!

You could always try info

Ironic that one of the biggest complaints about AI these days is that it’s stealing from artists, and the OP couldn’t even follow the CC-BY-NC license that xkcd is released under…

That makes it a bit more clear. Thanks so much for writing that up!

Huh, so I take it from the other comments here that Kent isn’t entirely correct? Is there a summary of the back and forth so far?

The fact that scams persist on blockchain is an unfortunate side effect of the whole uncensorable thing…